The
Cherryvale Bender Museum opened in May 1961. The museum building was an
authentic reconstruction of the clapboard Bender homestead located along
the bleak, isolated countryside of the Osage Mission trail during
1871-1873. The museum was located 2-blocks from US Highway 169 in
Cherryvale seven miles southwest from the original 1871 Bender southeast
Kansas frontier “store and inn”. The following black and white pictures
are from the promotional postcards that were sold to help preserve and
maintain the museum.
Let’s go inside the Museum to relive that Bender era.Postcard Cherryvale Museum Collection